"I’m always looking for people doing interesting things with e-mail. Even if you’re a spammer, or someone trying to destroy the spammers, I want to hear from you" (Zed Shaw, maintainer of the Lamson project).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/lamson/print.html
"I totally think Lamson will be used more for spam than for anything really useful. My hope with Lamson is that it acts like a modern sewage system for the internet. Everyone's gotta poop. You can't escape it, so why not try to do it in a clean fashion that improves the general health of everyone involved?"